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...Shargh, a newspaper widely believed to be controlled by former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who is favored to win next week's presidential election. Kambiz Tavana, a voluble reporter in his early 30s, joined me at Cafe Mint in midtown Tehran to make the case for his journey to the Rafsanjani camp. He described the reform era as "a flailing moment, not a movement" and said its legacy was to illustrate the clerical regime's insurmountable power structure. Rafsanjani, Tavana said, is a player within the system and a powerful pragmatist and can be more effective than the current...
...explosion of interchange between the languages," he says. "Maybe that 1,000-word vocab will also explode." Does Macalister expect his list to grow? "For sure." Non-Maori people still have a lot to learn about te reo, he says, but "it's exciting - it's a journey we're on." As the popular English-Maori phrase goes, everything's kapai (good). With luck and a little aroha, both languages will still be saying that many years from...
...recover until you stop." Even then, say exercise physiologists, the body doesn't always bounce back completely. Ultra-athletes may be more susceptible to developing arthritis and fractures when they are older, and their muscles may not recover as quickly from tears and bruises. Still, says Rusch, "a journey like that is an amazing thing." And for her, well worth the physical toll of pushing her body to its limits...
...first mission was daunting: to scale a range of steep mountains and set up an observation point overlooking a road the Australians had dubbed Route Titanium, which large numbers of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters were using as a way to the Pakistan border. After an eight-hour journey by truck, the men had just three hours to climb the mountain under cover of darkness. For the next three weeks, they lived off the land. The survival skills needed for such operations take years to acquire - and are the source of one SAS nickname, "the chicken stranglers." According...
...next month is a CD, A T. Rex Named Sue, featuring Al Jarreau and other artists. Meanwhile, MGM is developing a movie about the ownership battle that ensued after the bones were discovered. Scholastic has published five children's books on Sue, who stars in an upcoming DVD called Journey to the Land of the Dinosaurs. The Sue industry does have its limits, however. The museum nixed a proposal for an animated TV show featuring "Sue the Dancing Dinosaur." Explains Field Museum senior project manager Patti Tuomey: "She doesn't dance, and she never did. That idea trivializes the importance...